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These are most of the talks, posters, and short lecture series I gave, starting with the most recent ones.

2017

  1. Cargese Summer school, Cargese, Corsica, France, June-July 2017
  2. Covariance Analysis in Biology, Harvard U, Cambridge, MA, May 2017
  3. CSU/CBE seminar, Fort Collins, CO, Mar 2017
  4. APS March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Mar 2017
  5. MIT/Biophysics seminar, Cambridge, MA, Feb 2017
  6. MIT/CBMM seminar, Cambridge, MA, Feb 2017

2016

  1. Dec 11-13, 2016, NIH BRAIN Initiative PIs meeting, Bethesda, MD
  2. Emory Biology Seminar, Atlanta, GA, Dec 2016
  3. UGA Computational Biology Seminar, Athens, GA, Nov 2016
  4. Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Asilomar, CA, Nov 2016.
  5. q-bio seminar, Stanford, CA. Talk slides, Nov 2016.
  6. Shannon's 100th anniversary workshop, Info-metrics Institute, American University, Washington, DC, Nov 2016
  7. UCSD q-Bio seminar, San Diego, CA, Oct 2016
  8. Emory Physiology Seminar, Atlanta, GA, Oct 2016
  9. Northwestern University, Physics Colloquium, Chicago, IL, Oct 2016
  10. University of Chicago, Computational Neuroscience Seminar, Chicago, IL, Oct 2016
  11. The 10th q-bio Conference, Nashville, TN. Talk slides, July 2016
  12. CNI Seminar, U Penn, Philadelphia, PA, May 2016
  13. APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Mar 2016
  14. Systems Biology, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA, Mar 2016
  15. COSYNe conference, Salt Lake City, UT, Feb 2016

2015

  1. PCTS workshop in Large Deviations, Princeton, NJ, Nov 2015
  2. Atlanta Systems Biophysics meeting, Atlanta, GA, Nov 2015
  3. Information Processing in Complex Systems, CCS Satellite meeting, Tempe, AZ, Sep 2015
  4. Center for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University, NYC, NY, Sep 2015
  5. The q-bio Conference, Blacksburg, VA, contributed talk, July 2015
  6. Emory-Tibet Science Initiative, India, May - June 2015,
  7. Rice University / CTBP, Houston, TX, Apr 2015
  8. APS March Meeting, San Antonio, TX, Mar 2015

2014

  1. Science Cafe, Emory Department of Biology, "Is there a hope for theory (rather than modeling) in biology?", Nov 2014
  2. Infometrics Conference, American University, Washington, DC, Oct 2014,
  3. Biological and Bio-Inspired Information Theory, BIRS, Banff, Calgary, Canada, Oct 2014
  4. Systems Biology Seminar, Boston University, Boston, MA, Sep 2014
  5. Causality, information transfer and dynamical networks, MPI-PKS, Dresden, Germany, June 2014
  6. JSMF Complex Systems Meeting, Atlanta, GA USA, May 2014
  7. BioFrontiers Institute Symposium, University of Colorado, Boulder, May 2014
  8. Condensed Matter Seminar, Physics, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, May 2014
  9. APS March Meeting, Denver, CO, Mar, 2014,
  10. Dynamics Days, GeorgiaTech, Atlanta, GA, Jan 2014. (Slides).

2013

  1. Redwood Theoretical Neuroscience Seminar, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Oct 2013
  2. Systems Biology Seminar, Yale University, New Haven, CT, Sep 2013
  3. Science at the Edge Seminar, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Sep 2013
  4. The Seventh International q-bio Conference, Santa Fe, NM, Aug 2013
  5. HFSP grantees meeting, Strasbourg, France, Jul 2013
  6. CRCNS-NSF meeting, Cambridge, MA, Jun 2013
  7. Information, Probability and Inference in Systems Biology workshop, Edinburgh, Scotland, Jun 2013
  8. BIRS Program on Mathematical tools for evolutionary systems biology, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2013
  9. Theory Lunch, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, May 2013
  10. University of Houston, Networks Seminar, Houston, TX, Apr 2013
  11. APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD, Mar 2013
  12. NIMBioS Workshop Systems and Synthetic Biology of Microbial Systems, Knoxville, TN, Mar 2013
  13. Computation in the sciences seminar, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Feb 2013

2012

  1. IST-Austria Colloquium, Vienna, Austria, Dec 2012
  2. ENS Biophysics Seminar, Paris, France, Oct 2012
  3. GSU Applied Math and Mathematical Biology Seminar, Atlanta, GA, Sep 2012
  4. The Sixth International q-bio Conference, Santa Fe, NM, Aug 2012
  5. CNS*2012, Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience Workshop, Atlanta, GA, Jul 2012
  6. Vanderbilt University, Physics REU Seminar, Nashville, TN, Jul 2012
  7. Aspen Center for Physics Physics of Behavior seminar, Aspen, CO, Jun 2012
  8. Emory University, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Atlanta, GA, Apr 2012
  9. Emory University, Emerson Symposium, Atlanta, GA, Apr 2012
  10. Cornell Biophysics Colloquium, Students Invited Speaker, Ithaca, NY, Mar 2012
  11. CMACS workshop on Systems Biology and Formal Methods, New York University, New York, NY, Mar 2012
  12. MBI Workshop on Robustness in Biological Systems, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Feb 2012
  13. UT Southwestern Medical Center, Green Center for Systems Biology Seminar, Dallas, TX, Jan 2012
  14. NSF Expeditions in Computing Complex Modeling and Analysis of Complex System (CMACS), Winter School keynote lecture, Lehman College, CUNY, Bronx, NY, Jan 2012

2011

  1. Computational and Theoretical Biology Symposium, Rice University, Houston, TX, Dec 2011
  2. MBI Woskhop on Stochastic Processes in Cell and Population Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Oct 2011
  3. Complexity Study Group, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sep 2011
  4. Info-Metrics in the Natural Sciences and its implications for the Social Sciences conference, American University, Washington, DC, May 2011
  5. Emory University, Winship Cancer Institute, Cancer genetics and epigenetics seminar, Atlanta, GA, May 2011
  6. Rutgers University, BioMaPS seminar, Piscataway, NJ, Apr 2011
  7. Microbial and viral evolution program, KITP/UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, Mar 2011
  8. Statistical physics of complexity, optimization, and systems biology, Bardonecchia, Italy, Feb 2011
  9. University of Waterloo, Physics Colloquium, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Jan 2011

2010

  1. William Bialek 50th Birthday Symposium, Princeton, NJ, Nov 2010
  2. University of Maryland Biophysics Group seminar, College Park, MD, Oct 2010
  3. University of Tennessee, Physics Colloquium, Knoxville, TN, Sep 2010
  4. Georgia Institute of Technology, Physics Colloquium, Atlanta, GA, Sep 2010
  5. Emory University, Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution program seminar, Atlanta, GA, Sep 2010
  6. The Fourth International q-bio Conference and Summer School, Santa Fe, NM, Aug 2010
  7. 31st Annual Meeting of the Canadian Applied Mathematics Society (CAIMS-2010), St. John's, Newfoundland, CA, Jul 2010
  8. University of Toronto, Biomedical research seminar, Toronto, ON, Jun 2010
  9. NSF Workshop on Open Systems, University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, May 2010
  10. NSF Workshop on Shared Organizing Principles in the Computing and Biological Sciences, Arlington, VA, May 2010
  11. University of South Florida, Statistics Colloquium, Tampa, FL, Apr 2010
  12. American Physical Society March Meeting, Portland, OR, Mar 2010
  13. Georgia Institute of Technology, Mathematical Biology Seminar, Atlanta, GA, Feb 2010

2009

  1. Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Meeting, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, Dec 2009
  2. UC Berkeley, Bioengineering seminar, Berkeley, CA, Nov 2009
  3. 76th Meeting of the Southeastern Section of American Physical Society, Atlanta, GA, Nov 2009
  4. Dynamics of signal transduction and of gene-protein regulatory networks workshop, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, Nov 2009
  5. Santa Clara University, Department of Physics Colloquium, Santa Clara, CA, Nov 2009
  6. Stochasticity in Biochemical Reaction Networks workshop, Banff, Alberta, Canada, Sep 2009
  7. Bacteria meet Physics program, Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, Aug 2009
  8. Information Processing in Biology conference, Beijing University, China, Jul 2009
  9. Vanderbilt University, Biophysics seminar, Nashville, TN, Jun 2009
  10. AMOLF (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) colloquium, May 2009
  11. LMU, Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience seminar, Munich, Germany, May 2009
  12. American Physical Society March Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, Mar 2009

2008

  1. Weizmann Institute, Condensed Matter Theory seminar, Rehovot, Israel, Dec 2008
  2. Weizmann Institute, Neurobiology seminar, Rehovot, Israel, Dec 2008
  3. Technion, Networks Biology Lab seminar, Haifa, Israel, Dec 2008
  4. Hebrew University, Computational neuroscience seminar, Jerusalem, Israel, Dec 2008
  5. Princeton University, Biophysics Theory seminar, Princeton, NJ, Nov 2008
  6. Emory University, Physics colloquium, Atlanta, GA, Nov 2008
  7. Columbia University, Neurotheory Center seminar, New York, NY, Nov 2008
  8. Columbia University, C2B2 Computational Biology seminar, New York, NY, Nov 2008
  9. International Society for Bayesian Analysis World Meeting, Hamilton Island, Australia, Jul 2008
  10. Principles of Biological Computation workshop, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, May 2008
  11. Harvard University, Condensed Matter Theory seminar, Cambridge, MA, Apr 2008
  12. Brain anatomy and development program, KITP/UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, Mar 2008
  13. American Physical Society March Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Mar 2008
  14. UCLA, Biomathematics Department seminar, Los Angeles, CA, Mar 2008
  15. Caltech, Bio-circuits / Information Science and Technology seminar, Pasadena, CA, Mar 2008
  16. UC Irvine, Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium, Irvine, CA, Mar 2008
  17. Duke University, Physics and Systems Biology Colloquium, Durham, NC, Feb 2008
  18. Brown University, Physics Colloquium, Providence, RI, Feb 2008
  19. University of Pittsburgh, Department of Computational Biology seminar, Pittsburgh, PA, Feb 2008
  20. Aspen Center for Physics, Conference on Decision Making in Single Cells, Jan 2008. Slides.

2007

  1. UCSD Center for Theoretical Biological Physics Seminar, Oct 2007. Slides.
  2. Emory University Computational and Life Sciences Seminar, Oct 2007. Slides.
  3. AMS Fall Western sectional meeting. Oct 2007. Slides.
  4. SFI Workshop From High Level Perception to Low Level Visions, Oct 2007. Slides.
  5. BIOCOMP 2007 conference. Sep 2007. (cancelled trip)
  6. CNS*2007 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience. July 2007. Slides.
  7. CNS*2007, contributed plenary talk. July 2007. Slides.
  8. 7th Understanding Complex Systems symposium. May 2007. Slides.
  9. UCLA Biomath department seminar. Apr 2007. Slides.
  10. Caltech CNS seminar. Apr 2007. Slides.
  11. KITP/UCSB program on Evolution of Molecular Networks. Apr 2007. Slides.
  12. CNLS conference on Unconventional Computation. Workshop on Neural Computation. Mar 2007. Slides.
  13. UNM SIBBS: Seminar in Biological and Biomedical Sciences on Stochastic Biochemistry. Feb 2007.
  14. Poster at Grand Challenges in Neural Computation conference. Feb 2007. Poster.

2006

  1. LANL TSC capability workshop Advanced Methods for Data Analysis. Coincidences and entropies of undersampled distributions. Sep 2006. Slides.
  2. DIMACS workshop on Dialogue on Reverse Engineering Assessment and Methods (DREAM). Reconstruction of metabolic networks from high throughput metabolic profiling data: in silico analysis of Red Blood Cell metabolism. Sep 2006. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  3. LANL TSC capability workshop Complex Networks. Information-theoretic reconstruction of interaction graphs in complex networks. Aug 2006. Slides.
  4. UNM/CS, Terran Lane's group seminar. Two Notes on Transcriptional Regulatory Networks. Aug 2006.
  5. International Conference on Molecular Systems Biology, Munich. Reconstruction of Metabolic Networks from High Throughput Metabolic Data: In Silico Analysis of RBC metabolism. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  6. Indiana University Biocomplexity Seminar, Two Notes on Transcriptional Regulatory Networks. Apr 2006. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  7. Santa Fe Institute. Natural Stimuli and Precision of Spike Timing in Fly Vision. Apr 2006. Slides.
  8. UNM Cancer Research Center, Albuquerque. Modeling genetic regulation at different levels: framework, algorithms, applications. Apr 2006. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  9. New Mexico Bioinformatics Symposium, Santa Fe. Genome-wide discovery of modulators of transcriptional interactions in human B lymphocytes. Mar 2006. Slides (Caution: Large file), Talk.
  10. Keystone Symposium on Systems Biology, Taos, NM. Poster. Optimal Information Processing in Small Stochastic Biochemical Networks. Mar 2006. Poster.
  11. LANL, D-1 seminar. A Bayesian Estimator of Entropies in a Severely Undersampled Regime: Theory and Applications to the Neural Code. Jan 2006. Slides.

2005

  1. NIPS'05 Computational Biology Workshop. Genome-wide discovery of modulators of transcriptional interactions in human B lymphocytes. Dec 2005. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  2. Baylor College of Medicine, Neuroimaging Laboratory. High spiking precision and natural stimuli. Nov 2005. Slides.
  3. Texas A&M College Station, Models for Genetic Regulatory Networks conference. Modeling genetic regulation at different levels: framework, algorithms, applications. Nov 2005. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  4. IAS, Princeton, Systems Biology. Modeling genetic regulation at different levels: framework, algorithms, applications. Nov 2005. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  5. Rutgers, BioMaPs. Modeling genetic regulation at different levels: framework, algorithms, applications. Oct 2005. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  6. University of Washington, Seattle, Biophysics and Physiology. How much does a fly know about its world? July 2005.
  7. UCSF, Computational Biology. An informal talk on Information-theoretic methods for analysis of microarray data. June 2005.
  8. CSHL, Computational Neuroscience. How much does a fly know about its world? June 2005. Slides.
  9. Columbia, C2B2. Information theory in systems biology. June 2005. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  10. LANL, CCS-3. Information theory in systems biology. Apr 2005. Slides (Caution: Large file).
  11. Cornell, LASSP/Physics colloquium. How much does a fly know about its world? Apr 2005. Slides.
  12. IBM Watson research center, physics. How much does a fly know about its world? Apr 2005. Slides.
  13. Computational Neuroscience, Columbia. Thinking about information processing in biological systems. Mar 2005. Slides.
  14. MIT, Biophysics. Informal talk on Information theoretic perspective on signal transduction. Feb 2005.
  15. Harvard, Bauer Center for Genomics Research. Thinking about information processing in biological systems. Feb 2005. Slides.
  16. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Physics. Statistical physics of information processing in biological systems. Feb 2005. Slides.
  17. University of Maryland, College Park, Computational Neuroscience. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem and models of learning. Jan 2005.

2004

  1. Rutgers Statistical Mechanics Meeting, New Brunswick, NJ. On the reconstruction of interaction networks with applications to transcriptional regulation. Dec 2004.
  2. NIPS 2004 workshop on Computational Biology, Whistler, BC. On the reconstruction of interaction networks with applications to transcriptional regulation. Dec 2004. Slides.
  3. LANL, Theoretical Biology / CNLS. ARACNE: An algorithm for the reconstruction of transcriptional regulatory networks in a mammalian cellular context. Dec 2004. Slides.
  4. NEU, physics colloquium. Predictive information: From definition to applications to biological systems. Nov 2004. Slides.
  5. BU, Biodynamics lab seminar. ARACNE: Reverse-Engineering Transcriptional Networks. Nov 2004. Slides.
  6. UCSB, KITP, "Understanding the Brain" program seminar. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem and models of learning. Sep 2004. Talk.
  7. UCLA, IPAM, Proteomics Colloquium. Estimating information quantities from biological data. Apr 2004. Slides.
  8. UCSF, Keck neuroscience center. Estimating information content of biological data. Apr 2004. Slides.
  9. NYU, CS colloquium. Estimating information content of biological data. Mar 2004. Slides.
  10. Computational and Systems Neuroscience conference, CSHL, Poster. How is sensory information processed? Mar 2004. Poster.
  11. LANL, CNLS. Predictive information: From definition to applications to biological systems. Mar 2004. Slides.
  12. Columbia University, C2B2. Estimating entropy and information in biological data. Mar 2004. Slides.
  13. IBM Watson Research Center, Systems Biology and Functional Genomics group. Predictive information: From definition to applications to biological systems. Mar 2004. Slides.
  14. Rockefeller University, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology. Estimating entropy and information in biological data. Mar 2004. Slides.

2003

  1. NIPS'03 workshop on Entropy Estimation. Entropy and information estimation. Dec 2003. Slides.
  2. KITP, UCSB, "Patterns formation" program seminar. Subextensivity and Complexity in Physical Systems: An Informal View. Nov 2003. Talk.
  3. Columbia University, Computational biology. Entropy and information of undersampled probability distributions. Oct 2003. Slides.
  4. KITP, UCSB colloquium. A new kind of science? (reviewing the book by S. Wolfram). Mar 2003. Talk.
  5. Neural Information Coding workshop. Novel approach to estimation of entropies of discrete variables with applications to neural coding. Mar 2003. Poster.
  6. UCSB Ststistics department, short lecture seris on Information theory and Bayesian inference. Feb 2003.

2002

  1. NIPS 2002 workshop on Universal learning. Dec 2002. Universal learning: A view of a Bayesian. Slides.
  2. NIPS 2002 workshop on Negative results and open problems. Dec 2002. On impossibility of learning in a reparameterization covariant way. Slides, Paper.
  3. CalTech's complexity club. Nov 2002. Predictive complexity. Paper.
  4. Theoretical biophysics group meeting, Princeton university. Nov 2002. Axiomatics of network information theory.
  5. Courant Institute, NYU, Bioinformatics group. Oct-Nov 2002. Short lecture seris on Information theory and Bayesian inference.
  6. Columbia University Applied Mathematics seminar. Oct 2002. Predictability, Complexity, and Learning. Slides, Paper.
  7. Courant Institute, NYU, Bioinformatics seminar. Oct 2002. Bayesian statistics, Occam razor, and model-independent learning of continuous probability densities. Slides (slightly misformatted), Paper.
  8. UCSB Statistics Department Colloquium. May 2002. Occam factors, spline priors, and model-independent learning of continuous distributions. Slides (slightly misformatted), Paper.
  9. ITP, UCSB Director's blackboard lunch talk. Mar 2002. Field theory meets the brain. Talk, Paper, Paper.

2001

  1. NIPS-2001 poster. Dec 2001. Entropy and inference, revisited. Poster, Paper.
  2. ITP, UCSB colloquium. Oct 2001. Predictability, Complexity, and Learning. Talk, Paper.
  3. Conference on Frontiers in physics of complex systems, Dead Sea, Israel. Mar 2001. Complexity through nonextensivity. Slides, Paper.
  4. NYU Courant Institute / Center for Neuroscience seminar. Mapy 2001. Predictability, Complexity, and Learning. Slides, Paper.
  5. Rockefeller University, Center for Studies in Physics and Biology colloquium. Feb 2001. Predictability, Complexity, and Learning. Slides (have a wrong date), Paper.
  6. MIT Cognitive Science Department, Sebastian Seung's lab seminar. Jan 2001. Predictability, Complexity, and Learning. Slides, Paper.

2000

  1. New England Complex Science Institute colloquium. Predictability, Complexity, and Learning, Nov 2000. Slides, Paper.
  2. NIPS-2000 talk on Learning continuous distributions, Nov 2000. Slides (have a wrong date), Paper.
  3. NEC, Biophysics seminar, Aug 2000.
  4. NEC, Biophysics seminar, Apr 2000.
  5. HUJI Machine Learning Seminar, Jan 2000. Information theory and learning. Paper.

1998

  1. Gravity Probe B, Theory Group seminar, Jul 1998.

1997

  1. CERN/PPE/L3 talk, Aug 1997. BGO dead crystall correction and shower fitting. Paper.

1994

  1. Belarusian State University, Theoretical Physics seminar, Jun 1994.